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A green, pink-feathered creature with wheels for feet who only appeared in The Muppet Show episode starring Don Knotts, singing the song The Windmills of Your Mind and getting injured. [citation needed] Seymour Brian Henson: An elephant who was paired with Pepe on Muppets Tonight, working as an elevator operator and commissary cook. [citation ...
Eric Jacobson (born January 15, 1971) [1] is an American puppeteer.He is best known for his involvement with the Muppets, performing Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, and Sam Eagle for The Muppets Studio, as well as Sesame Street characters Bert, Grover, Oscar the Grouch, and Guy Smiley—all roles that he inherited from the characters' original performers, Frank Oz, Caroll Spinney, and Jim Henson.
Frank Oz (born Frank Richard Oznowicz; May 25, 1944) is an English-born American [1] puppeteer, filmmaker, and actor. He is best known for his involvement with Jim Henson and George Lucas through The Muppets, Sesame Street, and Star Wars, as well as his directorial work in feature films and theater.
8-year-old Charlotte, nicknamed "Charlie", who moved to Sesame Street after her parents retired from the military. Her mother is played by Muppet performer Jennifer Barnhart. Chris Robinson (2007–present) Chris Knowings: A student who works part-time at Hooper's Store. He is the nephew of Gordon and Susan. [26] [27] Christy Robinson (2008, 2011)
Melinda Ruth Dillon (October 13, 1939 – January 9, 2023) was an American actress. She received a 1963 Tony Award nomination for her Broadway debut in the original production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and Absence of Malice (1981).
In 2003, she joined The Actors' Gang and appeared in the play Embedded in two roles (a commedia dell'arte of Condoleezza Rice, and a reporter) and was one of four actors from the play to be cast in the 2004 Academy Award-winning film Million Dollar Baby, where she played Mardell Fitzgerald, the trailer-living sister of Maggie, the film's lead.
She was a puppeteer in the films The Great Muppet Caper (1981) and The Dark Crystal (1982), and she appeared in various other Muppet series and specials. Muppet chronicler Christopher Finch wrote that Gold was "the most versatile female puppeteer to work on The Muppet Show [and] the only British member of the cast."
At the beginning of the first season, her character was a housewife; afterwards, her role expanded to that of being a nurse as well as the mother of adopted son Miles. Long lent her voice to various other Muppet segments on Sesame Street, particularly during the early seasons. On the 8th episode of the first season (1969), she was the voice of ...